So one of my favorite cousins had a conversation about no accounts. When we first started talking it was about no account mammies. Yes I said mammies. No account mammies are the moms who have kids and don’t take care of them. The moms who drop they babies off to big momma’s house and be in the club every weekend. The ones that don’t ever even check on big momma to make sure she need anything. Always expecting somebody to raise their kids but don’t raise them themselves. The no account mammies are the ones that have kids and expect the state to take care of them. These are the kids that get fished into homes other than the one they should be in. No accounts have a reason for why they do what they do but most don’t take into consideration that at the end of the day a choice was made and a choice was taken.
My cousin and I have these talks all the time. However the no accounts can really apply to anyone to be honest. it’s not an attack on women or mothers. It’s the reality of what happens when people who are too selfish to care about how choices and actions actually interfere with others. So for the sensitive you might as stop reading now. I will not sugar coat no account people. They are all around us. They could be in your close circle. This is not to say that you must have a perfect life. I know myself and others who have had lives that have been filled with tragedy, regret, etc but the choice to end up as a no account person is a personal choice. I had a conversation with a person yesterday. They said something that clicked to me. Without getting into the details it boiled down to level of relationship. Some people appear to be no account with you because they don’t even value you as anything worth doing better by. Is that the person’s fault? Some of it can be. However could it be the way you allow certain things to be said or how you carry yourself in that relationship that makes the difference?
We give the no accounts so much credit. For instance the cash me outside chick. She is a no account. Sorry not sorry. She is slated to make millions of this ghetto vernacular that black folks been accused of acting like but we get the wrong end of the stick. To be honest she is a disrespectful child that needed her behind kicked a long time ago. Yes I said it. I will not watch a reality show that glorifies her bad behavior. She needs the right set of parents. Now she making club appearances. How? She isn’t even 21 to enter these premises and making more than most hard-working citizens. But the dummies of the world put their stamp of approval on her and bam she’s an instant hit. Miss me with her and her antics. I am not a hater. I am on team make your money but if the only claim to fame is because you out here threatening to hit folks but every other time you getting your ass beat than I am in the wrong field. She is out here making disrespect and foolishness cute.
No accounts care but mostly about themselves. Have you dated a no account? The one who every time you bring up stuff they disregard you? The one that can’t seem to be on time except if it affects him or her? The one who seems distant but you still working on him? How much working on him or her do you need to do before you clock out permanently? Even doctors get in and do what they have to do in surgery. If the person you like has that much work to be done it may be time for you to consider that surgery time is not even worth it. Like what are you really going to do with this person? Convince them? How is that working out? Even in marriage the piece of paper that governs and holds your benefits of marriage together can’t make a husband or wife do what you want them to do. After awhile working on the marriage becomes just exhausting but I know we aren’t supposed to say that because the ones striving towards marriage will feel some type of way. This is real life. The glitter and gold of all things eventually wear down.
Let’s talk about the no account job you have. Who makes it no account? Does working at McDonald’s make it no account. Absolutely not. I really have to say this. Nothing in this world irks me more to hear people who finally get a piece of job saying the most demeaning thing about fast food workers, or janitors. Do you realize that people need to work. Where they work has no bearing on who they are or what they can or can’t do. I hear people say when people don’t have a job that they could have worked at (insert job) but the minute they do they have to deal with the most uppity attitudes because they sold you a burger. Stop this mess. You have no idea where you can be doing what you have to do for yourself and your family. This uppity mentality of telling people “he or she better pass me my damn sauce” needs to stop. No matter where you go you will find folks with bad attitudes that’s from the high-rise job to the lowest as well. So don’t attribute raggedy to someone just because of their job title. If you treated others well no matter what they do or who they are you yourself would be a lot further in life than where you are and that’s the truth.
No account friends exist. I am struggling in this department. The reason for the struggle is that it has nothing to do with cutting people off. It’s seeing the shift of friendship and waiting for the shift to complete itself. No account friends are the ones who never have nothing nice to say. You bring up something they make it about them. Or tell you that they been there and then go into the ME fest. Sometimes you need to just hear “let me know how I can help you.” Just because you did it one way doesn’t mean you have to speak ill about something and someone you call a friend. No account friends start when friends forget to treat each other the way you want to be treated. Not just when you feel needed and have a god complex that you are now saving the world. No account friends have to be dealt with by cutting them out of your life. Getting cut hurts. So the emotions you feel behind it is real. However what can you do with a no account friend? Nothing if your honest. They don’t serve a purpose but frustrate the gifts, talents, and love you could be giving to another human being and get the same in return.
You have the power to end the no account cycle. It doesn’t matter what your title in life is trust me being a no account person or continuing to deal with a no account person will only lead you into a place of continued frustration. You will be dark and angry without knowing why and all along it was because you had all of the negative energy around you. Take your life into your own hands in that you do what is absolutely best. You have a right to be happy. Happiness is a state of mind. However your struggle with the factors that you don’t think you can change. Its going to hurt. You will miss the negativity. Yes you will. You are used to it. Like for instance I was used to certain behaviors from others. So the minute I took charge and ended it I still longed for it. This is the part about change people don’t talk about. They make it seem as if you change and then you just keep on trucking. That’s not true especially when you been around something for so long. However like my grandma would say to hell with it and folks. You have to keep walking away, stay away, and command respect in your own life and how you deal with others and especially in how you allow others to handle you. How you allow others to handle you is super important. Often times when you allow folks to do anything the only one mad is YOU. You know better. You feel it’s not right. You know you don’t like it than stop it. It can be on a little scale or large one, end the mess today. Take into account the no accounts in your life.
People are walking around full of sorrow. Some of it is from what they have done. Let me give you a nugget for your past. If you DID it already and have made strides to do better and changed your life around know two things.
- It’s over
- People do not have to validate your change. You do not need an amen corner to push you along to the best parts of your life. Walk alone if you have to but stop waiting for acknowledgement of change that may not come.
If you are walking around with sorrow in your heart because you lack friendship and you want to be connected as most of us do, put out the very personality and love you want to receive. When it comes back to you tainted know that who you attempted to connect with or have been connected to is the wrong one. Another free nugget of wisdom, the amount of time you have been connected with a person or group of persons is never a reason to stay in a no account relationship. Why do you think that people who have been married for 25 years end? It could be they held on for selfish reasons like making the kids happy. It could be that they weren’t financially in a place to end things. This happens more often than you think. Walking around in the wilderness of any relationship being faithful to it because of amount of years knowing it no longer served you is craziness. Don’t get discouraged. Keep on going. The right ones with the right spirit will link up and it will be like being thirsty in a desert and finding water for the first time. Your issue is in the mean time of that happening. Continue on your goals, fine tuning your crafts, finding your gift to the world and taking care of your home. Your home also means your spirit, your well-being, and what makes you whole.
